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> This was a affluent suburb of a Canadian city.

Same, but in SoCal; it was easier to get high grade weed than it was to get beer, so most house parties were always well stocked with weed they seldom had alcohol unless they knew or were paying off certain places that sold them to minors in large quantities which carried lots of costs and risks, so a house party of 200+ guests would always be a challenge

Culturally weed was way more tolerated than alcohol as a result growing up, but still had a negative stigma as a 'losers drug of choice' despite its wide legal use, which is what made me gravitate toward hard alcohol as it had some exclusivity but also just better experience in a social setting than weed.

Flash forward a decade and I get involved in the hemp Industry and travel all over Europe and then return to the US (Colorado) where Hemp was starting to make inroads, and I realized a lot of the people in the Industry were former MJ (including my cofounder) and weren't 'lazy stoners with no ambition' as they were farmers as well as entrepreneurs, but they simply used a drug that I associated with decompression and relaxation in what I regarded a hyper competitive social setting like a conference or Industry party.

My point is that I think it varies culturally now that its been decriminalized and legalized in many parts of the World, and to be honest asking people if they want to smoke a bowl is just as common in some cities if they want a cup of coffee, and since I don't like caffeine and have a low THC tolerance I usually have to carry high CBD/CBN/CBG strains so as to no completely fall asleep due to the high THC strains most regular users smoke.

It's odd because in my teens and early 20s I felt that DARE indoctrination creep in and felt were were doing 'something bad' and we were going to get caught despite living and working in a legal state (CA or CO), but upon further analysis the truth is what I was putting into my body during a 2-3 Martini 'power lunch meeting' followed by a double espresso as a pick me up somewhere in between was way worse for me personally than if we had just took a drag from a joint outside before diving in and talking business and finalizing deals.

It's odd, and the stoner reputation is real in many cases, but I think a lot of it as in most sweeping generalizations, is conflated with a lot of misguided stereotypes.

I have been outpaced by 50+ year old couple with kids who drank and smoked weed on a regular basis as a a fit 20 something with no real responsibilities other than myself. Nothing I could do short of not sleeping made me as productive as that couple, even on an individual basis and I learned a lot about my own preconceived biases and confirmation biases. Most of it forced upon me by convention but also personal experiences that I'm glad to say I challenged and have become a better a person as a result.
Were that the case we could use human brains in jars to solve np problems. We can't. Human intuition is a poor thing that got us through the middle ages. It should stay there.
Not everything is identity politics dude. You should chill out.
I understand very much what’s going on, I wasn’t asking why it isn’t worth today’s price, I was asking why it’s worth $5-$40.

GameStop did 6 billion in revenue 2020. At $5 per share that’s a ~348mm valuation.
Pretty much all institutional investors disagree with you on that. The institutional flows into btc right now are staggering
I will admit that racist clubs aren’t for me. However since they are against me, my race, and the continued breathing of my family... I reserve the right to report them.

Racist groups start with talk, then inevitably end with burning crosses and dangling nooses.

This isn’t hyperbole.
> Tesla Level 2 -> CCS

A what now? I haven't seen anything CCS related in the US. Is that a European accessory? Don't all Teslas outside the US ship with CCS standard?

The US Teslas come with a J1772-to-Tesla adapter so you can use L2 Chargers.

There is a ChaDeMo-to-Teska adapter for $400. No idea why anyone would want this though, ChaDeMo is rare and, in my experience with my Leaf, often broken.
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Pretty much as the title asks. I’d like to truly understand languages like Haskell and friends, but I my math background is incredibly weak.
First I’ve heard this conspiracy theory and... I love it!
WSB is mostly buying options - not stocks directly and cashing out now (or at some top that could be in the future).

The people on WSB that sold their call options and made a killing are selling those options to other people on WSB who (likely) will lose everything. And the ones with diamond hands who haven't sold yet will (likely) lose everything.

So - this is like penny stock sellers in the 90s. Some little guys made a killing. Lots of little guys lost most of their savings.

It's not like all the little guys are going to win and Melvin Capital is the one paying the bill. It's like Melvin Capital went bankrupt, and some little guys on Reddit fooled a bunch of other Redditors into giving them a bunch of money.
I think "racial privilege" and/or "class privilege" are the general terms that have more straightforward meanings, and "white privilege" is both a) a special case of race/class privilege, and b) sometimes used as a poor synonym for race/class privilege.
I remember learning about HTML for the first time, maybe in Byte Magazine. It was before I actually had a computer with a browser. But the article talked about a benefit of HTML, which was that the tags could be interpreted by custom browsers for accessibility, including for the blind or sight-impaired. It seemed like a pretty cool idea to me.

Later on, when people started treating web design as a general purpose graphical and GUI framework, many of the accessibility benefits probably vanished.
>Would people want a chip which is basically unpredictable -- the performance can vary up by tens of %, they have to be re-trained periodically to prevent data loss, and there is no way to load pre-trained network? I doubt it. Maybe there is an extremely narrow use case, but I do not see it in the mainstream devices.

Human brains have the same problems and seem to be fairly popular.
Ah, you appear to be correct. He’s intentionally refusing to understand the answer to his question, even though it’s quite clear.
> given it bordered on trolling

Really?! I've seen plenty of trolling in my day, and that didn't ring any of my alarm bells.

Is it really that bizarre to you to call anti-establishment /r/wsb gamblers "nihilistic"? The ethos of the subreddit is basically "eh, screw it, let's see what happens" so is it that hard to imagine a subset of members going a little further, to "eh, screw it, none of this matters"?
>Parler was explicitly unmoderated by choice and hate speech was its selling point.

It's worse than unmoderated. That would imply some sort of free speech zone where anything goes, but in reality any sort of left leaning stance will quickly get you banned.
What kind of "signals" are being fed into this model? Are we talking like, scroll position relative to a file, and things like that?
Are you saying stocks are supposed to be riskless? And you are entitled to guaranteed gains?
What if this is simply revealing regular cannabis use as a popular method for coping with trauma? Or connecting with oneself in an age of ever-increasing disconnection from one's body?
Discord is just irc with extra censorship.
Look at all the open slots in moosup, ct: https://getmyvaccine.org/zips/02886

These slots may not get filled.
> WSB bets top posts are literally AOC, a democrat congresswoman, supporting them right now and somehow someone is still finding a way to blame Trump?

Missing the mark here, mate. No one in this chain said that. Maybe re-read the actual criticism?
Indeed, I'm a double bassist, and accessible buildings are a huge blessing, especially when loading out at 2 AM after playing for 4 hours straight. Not to mention, they've probably saved me thousands of dollars in repairs.
How long will people endure the censorship?

Is it just me or am I seeing more subtle revolt against this persistent, opaque censorship on the Internet?

I'm trying to stay down-to-Earth, but it honestly seems to be getting out of control with Google, Twitter, et al.
Fair enough.

So, in the category of science, that leaves Physics, and what else?

What would you call all of what we now call the biological, social, medical, sciences at the moment?

What would be your proposal for a new category for everything that uses the scientific method, but that may have variations in the individual elements of the treatment and control groups?

Maybe it would be more practical to change the name of Physics to something else, rather than re-categorizing all of the other fields.

We could refer to physics as 'Invariant Studies' or something like that, and keep calling everything else science. That way might be easier across the board.

I would propose as an alternative that we work to improve general scientific literacy so that the general public might be more familiar with the methods used in each field. For example, if more people knew how regression analysis worked they might be better able to understand it as the foundation for many of the conclusions in the social sciences, and so might be better able to understand the generalizability and potential limitations of what they are seeing when they are presented with a conclusion in one of these fields.
Does water already in vapor form really impact fires?
This is, as was pointed out, a stupider question than mere chance or lack of knowledge would explain. You appear to be asking intentionally dumb questions in order to provoke us for some reason.
Because they want to be listed in the exchange without going the traditional way. That is the concept floated for Dell using VMWare in the linked article.
Great question. Cuts to the core and answers so many other questions without being vague like "what's the culture like? Do you feel empowered?".
I'm not sure about the breakdown for btc, but a very large amount of btc is owned by institutions. The flows have been staggering
That article makes good points, but doesn't even mention the obvious alternative: join the fork that Amazon immediately announced, the need for which has also been supported by other significant contributors besides CrateDB like Logz.io and Aiven. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-as-predicted-is-forking-el...
That's not at all what I'm suggesting.

Here's a thought experiment. In a few hours of coding, Google, Discord, Twitter, Facebook, etc. could all spin up map/reduce searches across all their channels, groups, links, results... for any wordlist you'd care to provide.

If a flagged word is used past a certain frequency, the channel can be closed, the page can be delisted, the accounts can be banned, or the site can be terminated. So clean, simple, and really quite easy.

They can even just start with the really really awful words if you like.

But they don't do this. Generally speaking they (at least historically) tend to support the ability of people to say Bad Things on the internet! You can even enter these Bad Words right into the front page of the world's biggest search engine and get hundreds of millions of hits in 0.33 seconds.

Yet somehow a channel of particular notoriety which is causing serious financial damage to some very Important People can disappear in an instant, maybe even right on the day of its peak exposure, and those trivially, easily, obviously detectable Bad Words can be blamed.

And no one even has to think too hard about if that was really what just happened here. Because who would ever step up, particularly in our current political environment, to say that anyone or any channel used to espouse such Bad Words (or Wrong Think) should be tolerated?

It all just seems so implausibly convenient.
Is using a short to create a synthetic long shares of stock really legal/allowed/common?

If so, seems like a loophole a truck could be driven through that I'd imagine is abused frequently.

I've seen synthetic positions like this for options, but never heard about them for stocks.
I also tried www.Nutrisense.io
Their marketing needs a lot of work because I stumbled upon on them on a Reddit thread but couldn’t find them anywhere else, but their product was amazing.
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Cross It, have no fear, with Jesus, you will surely Conquer
Cross it, have no fear, with Jesus, you will surely conquer, what's like a mountain before you? What do you see as a hindrance? The hill which the sturdy men scaled, but failed, a child of God scaled without error. What's like a roaring lion before you that said "He will destroy, spoil and depose? The Lord will bring them to open justice and desolation, what stands in your way like a barricade, that's saying "no one can remove it from your way? Who wants you to embark on a journey of no return? The Lord will crush the nefarious for their deed and He will ground the sturdy into dust.
Honestly firefox's PWA support always sucked it didn't support extensions, or the Share Target API, and Firefox installed PWAs don't show up in the "Remove Program" ui on windows, or even the app drawer on Android from time to time. Even Safari has a better PWA experience. This looks like Mozilla cutting bait when they know they can't compete. Firefox is in a death spiral. It's been a good run!
Yeah. The bigger problem is in the past 30 odd years, according to some reports, this place has remained shut for over 7 years. 7 years of no business, no schools.

Granted it was usually for weeks at end with respites and all but the fact remains I live in a very uncertain place.

Funny that you mention banks lending to those who dont need it. I have a client who is paying a 20% interest on a mortgage backed loan. Mind=blown. Why? Because the particular bank has made it easy to get a loan, you call them and they give you the money in a couple of hours. That is a selling point here, not total interest outlay or processing fees.

Yes. You are right. Businesses do take a loan to delay "folding" in hopes of better days. Its just really bad.
For me, the issue is my clients get more sales, that is more fees for me. Once that falls, it affects my bottom line directly and the stuff follows down.
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I think the comparison to WebGL is apt. It's also worth adding that scaling WebRTC -- both to calls with more than a few participants, and to large numbers of users on a service -- is still a bit of a specialized undertaking.

Partly because it's intended to be a really, really flexible API, the abstractions are pretty leaky. You end up learning a lot about video codecs, UDP and RTP networking, and browser implementation details as you build out WebRTC applications!

(I'm the cofounder Daily.co of a YC company that tries to make WebRTC "just a few lines of code" for common use cases, and to be the best possible application-level APIs and global infrastructure for advanced developers.)
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HFT firms do not front run retail orders. This does not happen.
People always blame dummies on stuff like this but why can't it be all those secretive algo traders screwing up? The volume of this is $7 million, that's not much but also not small enough for a few day traders that are screwing up.

WSB have also been promoting Blackberry a ton. Blockbuster has been bankrupt for nearly a decade yet are up 1200%: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-penny-stock-behind-...
Short answer: yes.

tldr; answer: having engineers support their own systems encourages them to pay down operational tech debt faster.
Human intuition is what lets humans solve problems we still can't solve using computers. It is therefore highly relevant until we have invented general purpose AI.
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Yes. Did you have a thought on that in particular?
Problem I have with .io is that .com is more familiar with 1/3 the cost.
> I suspect therefore that changing the credentialling process is unlikely to have much impact on these issues and/or is not the most effective way to impact these issues.

The easiest way to expand medicine access would probably just be to remove government restrictions on the number of medical schools, the number of hospitals, and the number of physicians. I don’t think we need to dismantle the credential system.

> I'm 57 years old. I've never, ever met anyone who isn't a libertarian nerd (I have friends ...) that checks to see what medical school a physician attended.

This why we have to be careful about generalizing from our own experience conclusively :)

> If they are "checking" at something approximating that level, they do so via clinical affiliation (e.g. "anyone at the Mayo has to be great").

There’s how things are, and how things should be. People ought to take more responsibility for their healthcare and that includes who provides it.

> Not really. The "watchers" in our current system are government agencies, not private (potentially for-profit, or at least for-big-salary) corporations. The incentives align in significantly different ways.

Perhaps you haven’t noticed but the watchers in government agencies and the for-profit, big salary corporations they are supposed to be watching are the same people. its called “regulatory capture” and “revolving door”.
The flip side of my impromptu "rule" is that you can drop the "careful" part as long as you are comfortable with a little or a lot of mess. Obvious common sense lowers the tolerance. I wonder how others set their tolerance? My perspective is that most OO hoerarchies don't go too deep. I've seen 4-5 at rare extremes. Around 2-3 is common. I'm sure someone has encountered 10 or more. I shudder to think how well that turns out in practice.
> Retail is a liability, and they're retail that's ESPECIALLY being eaten alive by online.

Retail may be a liability. But real estate is not.

GameStop has small stores that should shut down. However, they also a not insignifcant number bigger stores that can become "gaming places" once we get Covid under control.

Being a "Safe place for Mom to drop the kids to play Pokemon" has real value.

Not everything must be online.
To keep the analogies, GP asked if the Internet was useful for anything, I gave one - 'buying pizza on webpages' - and you're objecting to my use of the word 'webpage' vs 'app'.

Underneath all the talk of smart contracts running on ETH, behind DApps, the system at large skirts money laundering laws, and that's not a property of the system that conveniently just happened. A big reason for choosing crypto over something boring and normal, ie banks and the whole regulated financial industry, is because it skirts money laundering and other financial regulation, and because it's outside of the regulated financial industry, a lot of users don't believe they have to pay taxes on any gains made. For those that don't believe in the concept of taxes, that's very attractive.
The thing about MC company is they have no obligation to keep their pricing or business model moving forward. They can sell to an insurer or pharma company or just raise their margins. This is good but shouldn’t be integral.
Here here. It’s plainly obvious from the large block buys happening in extended hours trading that most retail doesn’t have access to. This is substantial money moving. Retail isn’t the driving force, but they’re riding shotgun and being used as a scapegoat for risk management failures.
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1. what counts as a "platform"?

2. if "hate speech" bans must go through the legal system, what about other bans? eg. trolling or other disruptive behavior?

3. going through the legal system takes months/years, how do you prevent actually bad actors from misusing this?
You’re missing the selection bias at work here. The issue is that good OO doesn’t get you upvoted in programmer related forums like HN because it’s not terribly popular. Instead what does get upvoted is arguments against OO, and these often contain a lot of bad OO code as counter-examples.
> less harmful than any negative effects observed in this study.

There are other effects, effects on the brain and on sleep quality, for instance, that are not mentioned in this study. Effects on the lungs and cardiovascular system.

None of that has anything to do with 10 years in jail to me. Life sentences for possession are stupid and Boomer.
Imagine if they had said that about HTML forms back in the '90s
Short selling is not illegal in Germany. I also suspect you are wrong about some of the other countries as well. But regardless, you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the industry who thinks shorting is bad. The overwhelming consensus is that shorting is very good to allow
How would that work, practically? Let's say I prefer to get my hair cut by a barber that makes public statements in favor of gender equality instead of patronizing one that publicly advocates for the dynamics of Western society's traditional gender roles. For the sake of this scenario, let's say there's no other relevant difference between the two barbers, except where noted. Should my disfavored barber be able to insist that I shift some or all of my hair care business to them since the reason I'm not using them is their speech? How much of my business should they be able to force?

Would it be any different if I preferred the traditionalist and the one who wanted to force my business were the equality advocate? What if my preferred barber just stayed quiet and it were the one who vocally advocated either view who insisted on my business? What if the business terms of the barber with distasteful speech were worse, and how much worse would they need to be for that difference to outweigh their free speech rights?

None of this seems very plausible to enforce well.

More importantly, who would decide among all these possibilities? That's quite the power of imposing one's views (and financial policies) on others. I'm not sure I trust any government or private regulatory authority with that much control over private lives and livelihoods.
If you replace cannabis in the title with alcohol or tobacco everyone would have said "duh.." and move on. The difference is that the legalization of marijuana is a hotly debated subject so people's opinion on the health effects seems to be more affected by their position on legalization.

If you showed this article to a Dutch person, they'll probably just say "duh.." then continue smoking their weed instead of tearing apart this article like a lot of people here.
Thesis in this case being “let’s protect GME from vultures and make some money on the side?” I have a hard time believing that is anything but PR. I’d hardly call the denizens of r/WSB altruistic. Sanctimonious, energetic, and smart? Absolutely. But they aren’t there because they want to empower the meek against the mighty.

Having lived through a number of cryptocurrency boom/bust cycles I’ve seen first hand how everyone is coordinated and holding the line...until those who have profit in their sights decide to find a bunch of bag holders to cover their exit. Poof.
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